Elas. Elas ( port.; fem). 'They': the unnamed, the migrants, the women, the outcasts and the unwanted. "They" support the opposition in repressed states and cross borders to survive. A scene from in Milan Kundera's 'Unbeareable Lightness of Being', where the main character, Thomas, dreams of being a chauvinist executioner, is re-contextualized in the border between Mexico and United States, where displacement of women and feminicides are a common practice.
Elas ( port.; fem). "Ellxs": lxs inombrables, lxs migrantes, lxs mujeres, lxs marginados, lxs indeseados. Ellxs apoyan a la oposición en estados represivos y cruzan fronteras para sobrevivir. Una escena del libro"La insorpotable levedad del ser" de Milan Kundera, en la que el personaje principal Thomas, sueña que se convierte en un verdugo misógeno, es recontextualizado en la frontera Mexico - Estados Unidos, espacio en donde el feminicidio y el desplazamiento son practicas comunes.
"Elas", the video, is part of the project Displaced Bathers, which comprises of a series of four large format portraits and four medium format self-portraits.